The following remedies should be carefully studied; and if the proper Homoeopathic simile to the case in hand is not to be found among them, them search should be extended through thee whole Materia Medica; for the medicine which presents the most perfect picture of the tout ensemble of the case, will not only do the most good, but will usually be the only one which, in bad case especially, will do any good. And both the dose itself, and the frequency of its repetition, should be made to conform to the nature exigencies of the case, according to the best judgment and experience of the attending physician. The rule of Hahnemann, to wait for the exhaustion of the action of one dose before administering another, is as sound as it is universal in its application. But it is the particular application of this rule to each individual case which calls for the exercise of the closest observation of of the wisest discrimination. Since it must be evident that the action of a remedy adapted to relieve the most violent symptoms of a actual abortion, will be more rapidly exhausted than that of one calculated to cure in advance the constitutional taint or actual chronic disease which may predispose to abortion.
Aconite. If a pregnancy woman has fright and the fear remains, and she cannot seem to get over it, she must take Aconite at once. Or if she have hemorrhage and fear of death, is sure she will die; or she is very giddy on rising from a recumbent position; she has to lie down again, she cannot remain up.
Apis. Stinging pains occur in one or the other ovarian region, more and more frequently till labor pains are produced; sometimes flowing and finally abortion. The urine is usually scanty and there is absence of thirst. Prolonged and difficult constipation is often connected with such cases. Apis will invariably relieve these symptoms, and pregnancy may then continue to the full term.
Arnica. In case of shocks, falls, bruises, or concussions, a pregnant female should always take Arnica at once. More particularly if she commences to flow with or without pain; or to have pains without flowing.
Asarum. Indicated in threatened abortion form excessive sensibility of all the nerves, so that from even imagining something unpleasant might occur, a disagreeable thrills though her, momentarily arresting all her thoughts and functions.
Belladonna. A pressing towards the vulva, as if all the internal organs would issue therefrom. Pain in the back as if it would break. Flushed face, red eyes, throbbing carotids, and heat in the head. More or less discharge of blood from the vulva, the discharge sometimes feeling very hot.
Bryonia. Discharge of dark red blood, pain in the back aggravated by motion; burning pain in the uterus; headache as if it would split. Pain all over, limbs and all; lips and mouth dry; thirst; desires to keep still; nausea in sitting up. Constipation, the stool being dry as if burned, and difficult to evacuate.
Calcarea Carb. Leucophlegmatic constitution. The history of her case reveals a disposition to hemorrhage; menses too often, too abundant and too long; cold and damp feet; vertigo. If we now find her threatened with a miscarriage, labor-pains, flowing, &c., we shall be likely to arrest her troubles with Calcarea c., unless there are more decided symptomatic indications for another remedy.
Camphor. Particularly indicated in seasons of epidemic influenza, when females abort almost as generally as the influenza prevails. Especially if she have pale, loose and cold skin with general disposition to catarrhal discharges.
Cannabis. In cases where females have been affected with violent gonorrhoea.
Cantharis. The key-note for this remedy in such cases in an almost constant desire to urinate; sometimes ineffectual, but when successful only a few drops are passed, with cutting and burning pain.
Carbo Veget. When the menses are usually too pale and too scanty; or too copious and premature, with a decided varicose condition of the genital organs.
Chamomilla. She has labor pains with more or less discharge of dark blood and frequent urination, the urine being profuse and pale. Her pains excite great restlessness and agony, and irritability of temper.
China. She has a sensation of distention in the abdomen as if it were packed full; she wishes to discharge flatus, but its evacuation either upwards or downwards affords no relief. If she has hemorrhages, see this remedy under Metrorrhagia, in a former chapter.
Cinnamon. After a false step, or a strain in the loins, the chief symptom is a profuse flow of red blood.
Cocculus. Much bilious vomiting; paralytic pain in the back, rendering the lower extremities almost entirely useless.
Conium. Much vertigo on turning over when lying down. Urine intermits at every micturition.
Creasote. Her hemorrhage seems to pass into a corrosive, ichorous discharge, and then to freshen up again and go on.
Crocus. Her discharge is composed of black strings.
Dulcamara. Where the threatened miscarriage has been induced by exposure in a damp cold place, as in a milk house or cellar.
Ferrum. Flowing and pain, with a fiery red face.
Hyoscyamus. She is delirious and rather spasmodic, with rigidity of the limbs. She loses her sight and hearing. She may at the same time discharge bright red blood with labor-like pains.
Ignatia. Much sighing and sobbing; suppressed grief has been the existing cause.
Ipecac. The key-note for this remedy is one continual sense of nausea, without a moment’s relief; or pain about the umbilicus passing off into the uterus; or a continued and profuse flow of bright red blood. Either of the above symptoms are an almost positive indication, and when present this remedy will nearly always cure the entire case without resort to any other remedy.
Kali carb. If the labor like pains commence in the back and pass off down the thighs, or if the pains are more like stitches.
Lycopodium. The abdomen is in a constant state of fermentation, or her pains are shooting from right to left, across the abdomen. Or she has intolerable pain in the back before passing water, with almost entire relief as soon as the urine flows.
Nux mos. Suitable to hysterical females who are disposed to fainting spells. Mouth and throat are dry; the tongue sticks to the roof of the mouth.
Nux v. Every pain produces a desire to defecate and to urinate, particularly the former, this is an almost certain indication. She is in a very irritable condition from high living, drinking wine, &c. Constipation of large difficult stools, or small and frequent stools with pain in the anus.
Phosphorus. Particularly applicable in tall, slender persons. Great sense of weakness in the abdomen. Stools narrow, long, dry, and difficult.
Platina. Discharge of a quantity of thick black blood. A tremulous sensation extending from the vulva into the abdomen. The mons veneris and vulva feel cold and sensitive to the touch.
Plumbum. Constipation, stools in balls like sheep’s dung; much depression of spirits, pain drawing from the abdomen to the backbone as though the abdomen were drawn upwards.
Pulsatilla. When the discharge is arrested for a little, then returns with redoubled violence; this cessation and renewal is frequently repeated. Mild and tearful females, of yielding temperament, are most easily affected by this remedy.
Rhus. When the patient has been wrenched or strained; as when she slips and is strained in trying to save herself from falling, or in lifting. Her pains at first are worse at night, particularly the last part of the night; and she is restless and must move frequently to find relief.
Sabina. This remedy seems particularly applicable to cases of abortion occurring habitually at the third month. The pain extends from the back directly through to the pubis. The discharge is profuse, with about equal proportions of clotted and of fluid blood.
Secale c. In feeble, cachectic women, having a wan, fearful countenance, pulse almost extinct, fear of death, copious flow of black liquid blood, and convulsive movements.
Sepia. She has yellow spots on her face; a yellow saddle across the bridge of her nose. She has sense. She has a sense of weight in the anus; constipation, stools mixed with slime, great urging and involuntary straining, often ineffectual. This sense of weight, like a heavy ball when well marked, is almost an unfailing symptom; and is almost always present when Sepia is indicated.
Silicea. In particularly indicated where there are spinal affections and constipation of difficult stools, as if the rectum had not power to expel them, and where the stool recedes after having been partially evacuated.
Stramonium. Threatened abortion, with unceasing loquacity; she talks, prays, implores, sings, constantly uttering something.
Sulphur. She has frequent flashes of heat, cold feet, heat on the top of the head; weak fainting spells; eruptions upon the face and other parts of the body, leucorrhoea, &c.
Veratrum. This medicine is indicated where there is nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea at every menstrual period; or exhausting diarrhoea. With every pain there is a cold seat upon the forehead.
